Bernard, after playing in an orchestra, in 1988 he becomes assistant director of Nicolas Joël and works with Jean-Claude Auvray.

In the following years he’s assistant director in some important opera houses and he works on the reprises of some Joël’s works in France and abroad (Romeo et Juliette at London ROH and Lucia di Lamermoor a New York MET).

Among his recent and future engagements there are Falstaff and Trittico in Budapest, Elisir d’amore with AsLiCo, in Ancona, Brescia and Trento; Romeo et Juliette in Moscow, I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Oslo, Venice, Athens, Verona and in Oman, Manon Lescaut in Lausanne and Triest, Otello in Moscow, La Bohème and Manon Lescaut in Sao Paulo.